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The Comfort of Conspiracy: A Review of "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?"
Scott Patrick, April 14, 2026
Scott Patrick argues that Gabriel Rockhill's Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism substitutes class analysis with conspiracy-focused explanation in its attempt to understand accommodation to imperialism among Marxist intellectuals.
Against Civil Society: A Review of Anton Jäger’s 'Hyperpolitics'
Julian Assele reviews Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics, finding fault in a conception of civil society that implicitly takes it as a neutral field of conflict rather than a weapon in class struggle used by capital to discipline racialized surplus labor. – Read review
Building Epistemic Capacity: A Review of "Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry"
Sam Dee reviews Notes Towards a Digital Workers' Inquiry by the Capacitor Collective, published by Common Notions Press. – Read review
Process and Totality: A Review of David McNally's 'Slavery and Capitalism'
David McNally's Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History offers a necessary corrective to the New History of Capitalism (NHC) group by embracing Marxism's revolutionary commitments, argues Julian Assele. – Read review
Uneven and Confused Development in Left Art Criticism: A Review of Adam Turl's 'Gothic Capitalism'
Adam Turl's recent work on art, Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted From Heaven & Earth, substitutes aesthetic choices for concrete advice on cultural organizing, argues Patricia Manos. – Read review